Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

The rudder was intact, although the bottom of the control was crushed. The cockpit and instrument panel displayed impact-related damage, and several instruments were dislodged and located around the cockpit. The elevator was intact and remained attached.

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Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Runway 122

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 14, 2025

Note the red and white rudder stripes that were authorized for barely four months. Behind the cockpit lies the radio operators station, an essential role for communications and monitoring potential enemy transmissions during maritime patrol missions. In the cockpit, a unique instrument has been installed: the Mark 28 Torpedo Director.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

Schiff has multiple instructor ratings and has logged more than 21,000 hours in the cockpit. The organization boasts a membership of more than 8,000 training professionals, which it serves through a monthly magazine, weekly newsletters, and MentorLIVE streamed events, and More Right Rudder podcasts.

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Rudder Cockpit Pilot Airline 97

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 19, 2025

image via AirCorps Aviation) The front seat frame, rudder pedals, and the tube connecting the front and rear control sticks are visible in this image. image via AirCorps Aviation) Control Linkages The restoration team recently installed the control cable linkages to the rudder and elevator, throttle controls, and fuel valve linkages.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Rudder Stability Runway 110

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 5, 2025

The cockpit in 2015. The production required some Corsair cockpit parts for the creation of a studio mock-up to shoot the actors in the cockpit “flying” the aircraft in front of a projection screen. The newly painted rudder and horizontals now re-installed on 92460. Enter two angels; Jack and Jo Brinkerhoff.

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Rudder Tail Cockpit Lift 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cockpit of the Hughes H-1 Racer on display at the National Air and Space Museum (National Air and Space Museum) Among the most valuable reference photos have been those of the H-1’s cockpit. The rudder and elevators have their fabric doped, but the elevators have not been painted yet.

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Cockpit Firewall Aileron Rudder 116

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Or perhaps you’re designing a fully-fledged cockpit that rivals real-world flight training rigs. Many sim pilots also purchase dedicated peripherals to control the rudder and engines. Some devices also offer a basic level of rudder and throttle control. It all depends on your goals. This is by design, of course.

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Rudder Crosswind Pilot Air Traffic Control 96

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

A special highlight of this static restoration is the meticulously recreated 1950s cockpit. The lighting and controls are functional, and cables connect to movable rudders and flaps, providing a true-to-original experience. The cabin reflects 1950s style but incorporates modern technology.

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Rudder Hangar Tail Cockpit 130

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

By Josh Page, CFI Ever heard your flight instructor say, More right rudder? If uncorrected, it can cause a yawing movement to the left, requiring the pilot to use right rudder to maintain coordinated control. By now you should be able to answer this quickly Applying right rudder! How do you counter this left turning tendency?

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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust 52

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Flight Training Central

APRIL 30, 2025

In our latest Video Tip of the Week, we walk through each step of the rectangular course, with in-cockpit video and 3D animations. Even if you’re already an experienced pilot, this maneuver is a great way to keep your stick and rudder skills sharp. While it may sound boring, there’s a lot to learn from this simple pattern.

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Pilot Rudder Cockpit 52

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying Wolfgang Langewiesche (1944) While not a history, per se, Stick and Rudder is a historic introduction to flight that has been used by flight students since some of the earliest days of organized flight training. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R.

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Rudder Pilot Air Traffic Control Cabin Crew 97

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

(image via AirCorps Aviation) Over the past few months, most of the work on the AT-10 involved the cockpit section, the main fuselage, and the vertical fin. Indeed a major milestone saw the cockpit section mounted to the main fuselage! image via AirCorps Aviation) The cockpit section as it looked following painting prep.

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Rudder Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Stability 111

AV Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Females only entered the cockpit to bring us coffee, and our cockpit escape tape trap doors, rudder trim knob covers, and the inside of our metal aircraft and engine log books were sometimes, against company policy, festooned with naughty pictures from magazines.

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Flight Deck Transponder Cockpit Checkride 95

Flying Magazine

JUNE 4, 2025

READ MORE: How EFB Helps Private Pilots Transition to IFR Flying What an EFB really does is change how pilots interface with the cockpit. If not on day one, then soon after the basics of stick and rudder are mastered. This could be a tablet, a smartphone, or even a laptop, as long as it contains the proper software.

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Pilot Weather Flight Plan Cockpit 99

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 16, 2025

These rods, which link the cockpit to the rudders and elevators, require precise placement to ensure reliable control of the aircraft once operational. Chris has been making strong progress on the port wings trailing edge.

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Tail Rudder Cockpit 111

Simple Flying

MAY 9, 2025

The "glass cockpit" used six cathode ray tube displays to display flight and navigation information. The A310 was a pioneering airframe in composite material; the -200 introduced new carbon fiber-reinforced plastic in the spoilers, airbrakes, and rudder.

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Flight Deck Rudder Tail Cockpit 105

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

These include: Fuselage Wings Cockpit Engine Propeller (in some aircraft) Tail Assembly (Empennage) Landing Gear Understanding how these parts interact is essential to grasping the basics of aerodynamicsand its one of the first steps in becoming a safe and informed pilot. These parts help the aircraft maintain its stability in flight.

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Lift Thrust Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Former military fast-jet test pilot Davies explained that the VX4s production is a collaborative effort with Leonardo building the fuselage, Norco the wings and Honeywell the cockpit avionics. The stick and rudder skills are an order of magnitude less demanding than any traditional aircraft, said Davies.

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Pilot Cockpit Rudder Weather 270

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. But there are variations from plane to plane.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 95

Air Facts

APRIL 9, 2025

This promises to be a major advancement in cockpit technology, with benefits for pilots and passengers alike. Autopilots, glass cockpits, and yes, even the nose wheel led to some erosion of old school pilot skills, but with an accompanying increase in overall safety. What else might we lose? That is why most of us fly, isnt it?

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Weather Airplanes Pilot Cockpit 98

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 5, 2025

Sage’s second design, the Type 2, a small two-seat fighter, where a pilot and rear gunner were kept in an enclosed cockpit, was built and flight tested.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Airplanes Rudder 98

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The team also applied a second coat of varnish to various wooden parts, along with the fuselage assembly and cockpit floor. image via AirCorps Aviation) Here we can see that the newly-made third rib and a 1/16” plywood reinforcement strip for the rudder hinge installation are glued and clamped in place.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Rudder Tail 98

Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). Like in a conventional aircraft, youll still have a yoke or stick in the cockpit to control pitch and roll. The rudder allows you to make controlled yaw movements. Split rudders help with yaw control without needing a vertical fin.

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Tail Airplanes Weight-Shift-Control Drag 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

This didnt correct the problem sufficiently, so the tail was completely revised, giving the horizontals dihedral and capping each with a large oval fin and rudder arrangement much like that of its Consolidated stablemate, the B-24 Liberator. Note the radome above the cockpit. Mission accomplished!” Photo via U.S. Navy) A U.S.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 13, 2025

Not Studying Enough Outside of Flight Lessons The Mistake: Many student pilots believe that learning to fly is all about time in the cockpit, neglecting the equally important ground school and self-study. This leads to unstable approaches, excessive pitch changes, and increased workload in the cockpit.

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Pilot Crosswind Final Approach Cockpit 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Floatplane pilots know well the importance of water rudders to their maneuverability on water, and though it’s the world’s largest floatplane, the DC-3 on floats is no exception, albeit with its peculiarities.

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Rudder Airplanes Drag Pilot 144

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, the chargers were too bulky to bring along in the cockpit. In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). Even taxiing needed to remain limited in order to conserve power and prevent the battery from overheating. Self-launch from high altitude airports.

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Density Altitude Cockpit Tail Runway 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

The aircraft is even still operational to some degree, as pneumatic and air pressure systems in place of the hydraulic system still actuate the 727’s landing gear, flaps, slats, rudder, elevators, and right aileron! On the nose of the cockpit section, the aircraft also bears the name of Captain William R.

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Cockpit Pilot Ceiling Rudder 91

Plane and Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

While the original Ercoupes lacked a rudder and rudder pedals entirely, this example has had them installed as an aftermarket kit, making the airplane a bit more familiar for newcomers to fly. The unique H-tail reduces the left-turning tendencies during takeoff while also minimizing the weathervaning effect prevalent in crosswinds.

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Rudder Airplanes Crosswind Tail 91

AV Web

MAY 11, 2025

Not much was noticed there except that on one aircraft, the cockpit floor carpeting was bunched up, restricting the travel of the rudder pedals, and on another airplane, the onboard fire extinguisher had gone out of date and had a weak charge. Nitpicking occurred as it should during the navel-gazing that a stand-down engenders.

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Air Traffic Control Hangar Rudder Pilot 70

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. We hop out of the cockpit, and Andrew ties the ship to the tarmac for the night. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Looks good with retracts, he replies. That sound is the same.

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Airplanes Hangar Runway Tarmac 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. You have to use a lot of rudder—I mean you have to be rabid as far as using the rudder to control the airplane, and it wheel lands very nicely.” It’s the rudder that is doing everything.

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Crosswind Airplanes Tail Cockpit 124

AV Web

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Synchronizing available information from the Black Hawks flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is ongoing, as is the effort to transcribe audio from the cockpit voice recorders from both aircraft.

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Quick Access Recorder Air Traffic Control Cockpit Rudder 69

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

Feet on rudder pedals. I closed my eyes and drank in a gulp of the cool air coming through the cockpit. Lantana Traffic, Pulsar Experimental Four-Five-Six-Lima-Tango taking off, two-seven, Lantana, will stay in the pattern. My breathing quickened as I gripped the stick, applying power with my left hand. Throttle all the way in.

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Runway Gross Weight Crosswind Airplanes 64

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. Additionally, the aircraft had low, fixed, spatted main landing gear and a tailwheel with twin open cockpits. The Stipa-Caproni in flight. II Editore F.

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Airfoil Rudder Drag Stability 98

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Primary Flight Controls The primary controls of a small plane are the yoke, rudder pedals, and throttle. Rudder pedals help manage yaw, which keeps the aircraft aligned during turns or crosswinds. Leopard Aviation provides ongoing support and resources to keep you sharp and confident in the cockpit.

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Weather Pilot Drag Rudder 52